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1659.] TOWN RECORDS. 49
shall all be present at the town meetings lawfully warned,
and answer to their names, upon the forfeit of 12
pence a man, on such default ; and there remayn till
the townsmen or townsman shall the meeting,
upon the same forfeit.
Mr. Hanford's Salary.
At a meeting held by the inhabitants of Norwalke
(1656), agreed and voted, that Mr. Handford shall
have three score pounds allowed for the yere insuing,
by them for his rate, and he is to be paid as followeth:
30 pounds in wheat, and pease, and barley, at the prices
4 shillings per bushell for wheat and barley, and
for pease, 3 shilling per bushell. The other 30 pounds
is to be payed, 8 pounds in and the other 22
pounds is to be payed in beefe and pork at the common
currint prise that it brings, when it is dew.
The Meeting House.
At a meeting of the Inhabitants of
Norwake, the 3d
of January (1659) agreed and voted, that there shall be
a meeting house built by the joint concurrence of the
inhabitants, 30 foot in length, and 18 foot in * * * to
be set upon posts in the ground, 12 foot in length, that
there be 10 foot distance from the ground to the
to the effect of the building, the inhabitants having
engaged 48 days worke, which each is to performe
as he may be called thereunto by chosen and appointed
by the towne—to call them forthe, provided
that the said men give warning two days at least beforehand.
Wolf-pits.
At a meeting held on the 16th of September, 1659,
voted and agree that it shall be lawfull for any person